THE NEW INQUIRY

MAY 27. 2025

Korea Under Ceasefire

February 6, 2025 the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea Lee Jae-myung spoke to the Economist and confirmed South Korea’s geopolitical dilemma.

DECEMBER 9. 2024

A Thorn in the Occupier's Eye

South Lebanon is a lesson in steadfastness — an obstinate and determined testament to the willingness of an indigenous people to confront their occupier and achieve absolute victory.

NOVEMBER 27. 2024

Health Equity Capture

Nisha Chicken Salad” on Weight Watchers’s website bears little resemblance to the salad Nisha Godfrey went viral for in 2022.

NOVEMBER 26. 2024

AMLO All Along

1917, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was preoccupied with appointing the people that would run the government.

OCTOBER 30. 2024

Seoul to Squeeze

Seoul neighborhood of Bogwang-dong sits on a steep hill rising over the Han River.

OCTOBER 24. 2024

Whose Garbage Becomes The Archive? - an interview with Eunsong Kim

Kim is a poet, writer, and Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University.

OCTOBER 15. 2024

Counter-mapping Complicity

feels impossible to sit and write amidst the constant grief and urgency demanded in this ongoing genocide.

OCTOBER 7. 2024

One Year

7, 2024—Today, we can expect a parade of treacly sycophantism, brazen sociopathy, and humanist admonishment.

OCTOBER 2. 2024

World Wide Waves: an interview with Laleh Khalili

is difficult to overstate the centrality of shipping to contemporary capitalism. Indeed, without shipping, it is difficult to imagine the birth of capitalism at all.

SEPTEMBER 26. 2024

Some Country for Some Women

the question “how are we to live in an atomic age? ” the writer C. S. Lewis declared, in a 1948 essay, that we think “a great deal too much” about atomic annihilation.

JUNE 24. 2024

Tiktok LLM

grinning young couple points upward toward a caption reading “our simple seggs aftercare routine. ” They playact the steps: shower, snuggle, bed.